Hello and welcome back to Maine Justice.

It is Tuesday morning, February 3rd.

I'm Andrew Weissman, and as always, I am here with my co-host Mary McCord, because for the last almost three years, Mary,

be and me every week.

That's right. And you know what? Sometimes twice a say is sometimes twice a week, sometimes some specials. Yes. But we have never missed a recording. I think it's because we feel really, really responsible and we just make the time. Yep. You got to keep up anyway. so you might as well be doing the podcast to help you keep up.

It's true.

And as I've said, hopefully this translates to the audience is that it is useful to take time to synthesize and reflect and think about themes in processing what happened.

Yeah, one of the questions I would get early on was,

how are you so calm on air?

And I always was like, oh, you should see me when I'm first reading this stuff.

I know.

This is like after I have to sit down and calm down and figure out how to process it.

And it's so helpful to do this. But hopefully people appreciate it. So, you know, you mentioned compartmentalizing things and putting them

into an organized fashion. That's kind of a good lead-in to what we're going to talk about today.

Because the first compartment, the first segment that we're going to talk about is the Department

of Justice. This is a podcast called Maine Justice.

And I think both of us and many other DOJ veterans and probably current DOJ lawyers,

jaws dropped to the ground on the weekend when we saw a posting for recruiting DOJ lawyers to go to U.S.

attorney's offices, basically to support

President Trump's agenda as opposed to, like, fight for the cause of justice, support victims,

do counterterrorism, those kind of things. We'll talk about that.

And by the way, Mary, that posting is not like on the DOJ website.

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